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Barbie is in hot water. And it’s not because she’s lounging, bikini-clad, in a hot tub flirting with Ken. Nope. Barbie, the protagonist of the book, “Barbie: I Can Be A Computer Scientist,” landed in the middle of an Internet firestorm because she failed miserably in the computer skills department. In the Mattel-sponsored book, Barbie acts inept, the antithesis of being a computer scientist. She calls in Brian and Steve to not only bring her game idea into reality, but to fix a virus on her and sister, Skipper’s, PC. In other words, Barbie can play video games, she can even hatch a good idea for one, but she doesn’t have the computer skill –...

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Barbie is in hot water. And it’s not because she’s lounging, bikini-clad, in a hot tub flirting with Ken. Nope. Barbie, the protagonist of the book, “Barbie: I Can Be A Computer Scientist,” landed in the middle of an Internet firestorm because she...

Pens, paper, folders: For the most part, office supplies are hum-drum commodities sold in many stores and online.Boca Raton-based office-supply retailer Office Depot, which merged in 2013 with rival OfficeMax, is trying to make office supplies more...

The first Boca downtown building to open as a rental apartment complex in a decade welcomed its first tenant Friday.
Camden Boca's 261 units will be first among 1,702 new downtown units — most of them rentals — expected to come online in the next two...

Comcast is offering eligible South Florida customers free Gateway wireless routers to create a WiFi zone at home and access the Web via multiple smartphones and other devices.The deal is aimed at those willing to pay a bit more for faster Web ...

Today Comcast rolled out technical and equipment customer support service plans for South Florida Comcast customers. Need help setting up your wireless network? Do you have a nasty computer virus problem? This plan is meant to help on a year round,...

My son, Spencer, who turned 4 last September, can slide the bar to unlock my phone, push the video app, select Toy Story 3 and skip to his favorite scene — the one where Buzz Lightyear crawls up the vending machine.
If your child knows as much (or...

Hewlett-Packard is buying wireless networking company Aruba Networks for about $2.7 billion, in what amounts to HP's first major acquisition since its disastrous purchase of a British software company in 2011. Aruba, based in Sunnyvale, California,...

PALO ALTO, Calif. Hewlett-Packard sought to shore up its struggling networking business Monday with the acquisition of one of Silicon Valley's top wireless networking companies, Aruba Networks, in the largest purchase since Meg Whitman took over as CEO....

Hewlett-Packard is buying wireless networking company Aruba Networks for about $2.7 billion, in what amounts to HP's first major acquisition since its disastrous purchase of a British software company in 2011.
Aruba, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., makes...

A girl as young as 10 blew herself up in a busy market in northeastern Nigeria, killing herself and four others, and fueling fears Islamic extremists are using kidnapped girls as suicide bombers. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the...

Sprint announced Tuesday that it is dropping its sponsorship of the NASCAR Cup Series after its current contract expires at the end of the 2016 season.
Sprint has been the title sponsor for NASCAR's top-tiered series since 2004, when Nextel signed a...

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With Christmas just around the corner, there are plenty of great gift ideas for the gamer in your life that are good for any time of the year. The launch of next gen consoles like PlayStation 4 and Xbox One have focused, for the most part, on...

HARTFORD — If you had a cellphone with T-Mobile or AT&T in the past five years, you might be owed money for unauthorized charges that have been recovered through settlements.
Both wireless carriers settled allegations of "mobile cramming"...

Spectra254, a start-up company in Danbury, is accelerating production of a portable ultraviolet-light sanitizer that was designed to curb hospital-acquired infections — and was just recently enlisted in the fight against Ebola.
The Spectra 1000 is a...

Wireless Zone, the nation’s largest Verizon wireless retail franchise group, is looking in South Orlando and Celebration as possible locations to expand in Central Florida, a spokeswoman for the company said in an email.
To start a franchise, the...

University of Chicago researchers aim to design prostheses that will not only be able to move, but would also provide amputees and quadriplegics a sense of touch.
In an underground laboratory at the University of Chicago, neuroscientist Sliman Bensmaia...

Whether for business or pleasure, Central Florida has a number of places where you can bring your laptop, iPhone or BlackBerry and settle down for some Web surfing. What are you waiting for? Order something, grab a seat and get started.
This list is not...